TY - JOUR AU - Yeo, Michelle AU - Manarin, Karen AU - Miller-Young, Janice PY - 2018/09/25 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Phenomenology of surprise in a SoTL scholars' program JF - Teaching and Learning Inquiry JA - TLI VL - 6 IS - 2 SE - Articles DO - 10.20343/teachlearninqu.6.2.3 UR - https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/TLI/article/view/57502 SP - 16-28 AB - <p>Faculty members participating in a year-long Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) development program experienced various surprises as transformational events. This study is a phenomenological exploration of these surprises. We use Dastur’s (2000) understanding of surprise as a phenomenological event that allows for changed perception and the possibility of a different future through an altered state of being in the world. Four different categories of surprise are explored: surprise that doing SoTL changed teaching, surprises about students, surprises about SoTL and the research process, and finally, surprises about communities and disciplines.</p> ER -